Migrate from AWS RDS/SQL using ADF

Recently, I came across a requirement from my customer to migrate the data from AWS RDS/SQL service to Azure for some Big Data Analysis. Obvious choice for this sort of activity in Azure is to use Azure Data Factory (ADF) feature. Now there are many examples of ADF on MSDN with various different data sources and destinations except for some and one of which is AWS RDS.

So how do you achieve it? Simple, treat AWS RDS/SQL as an on-prem SQL Server and follow the guidance for this specific scenario using Data Management Gateway.

Essentially you need to do the following from a very high level perspective-

Create an instance on EC2 in AWS and configure relevant firewall rules (as specified in guidance)